Meaningful Work Won’t Solve All Of Life’s Problems, But It Will Go A Long Way

May 11, 2017

We live in a day and age in which accepting the hand you were dealt is diminishing. If you want to follow your goals and dreams during this day and age, then you can, and so many people seem to be taking note.

With that in mind, every success-driven person (which should be everyone) should be in search of meaningful work. No, meaningful work won’t solve all of life’s problems, but it will go a long way. Let’s break that down in further detail.

Meaningful work could lead to more fulfillment in your life. After all, if you are doing the work you want to do, and the work you are passionate about, then waking up and going to work every morning won’t be a dreaded process. You won’t be focusing all your time and energy on getting out of your situation, which likely starts and ends with a dead-end job.

With that said, meaningful work doesn’t mean you are going to be successful in the money department. If your hobby is playing music, writing, working out or whatever it might be, then you have to be elite at those things if you plan on making a living from them, and that is not the case for every single person who enjoys those activities as hobbies.

“It is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.” — Jim Collins

Luckily, in this day and age, more and more people are figuring out ways to monetize their hobbies, and technology has a lot to do with that. More and more people are figuring out ways to monetize their hobbies online. They are figuring out how to sell their products via driving traffic to their websites.

The key is to find your niche, to find what you are good at, and then figure out how to make money by doing what you love to do. The internet alone can help you get there.

This might be a hard pill to swallow, but just because people are passionate about something, that doesn’t mean they are good at it. With that in mind, finding work that you are passionate about will lead to you forming your desired legacy, and becoming the person you were meant to be — and that’s what life is all about.

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” — Seth Godin

Find your hobby/niche, and then find the industry that best suits it. From there, study the competition, study the industry and become extremely hungry for knowledge. You might change professions many times over the course of your journey, and that is okay. People are constantly changing, and reinventing themselves. Find your passion, your industry of choice and then start doing meaningful work.